Travel Diaries

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

Cesare Pavese

Catalonia

Catalonia

A fortnight of fun and frolics in the Catalonian sunshine. I hadn’t been there since it was all in black and white.

Brugse Beer 2017

Brugse Beer 2017

Four days of mad geocaching under glorious skies, whilst trying to avoid a big, blue bear.

Welsh Weekend

Welsh Weekend

A four-day weekend of spectacular scenery, flash cars, and expanding waistlines.

Cutting the Mustard

Cutting the Mustard

Our journey home was punctuated by a night over in Dijon, the home of French mustard.

Reserved Nature

Reserved Nature

A slow day for three of us while Kas went for a long run in the morning. All four of us went for a short walk in the afternoon.

Chamonix Town

Chamonix Town

Today was that traditional day in each holiday where we didn’t really do much. The weather was a bit showery and grey and we were all a bit pooped after a long day out yesterday.

Three Countries

Three Countries

Geocaching in three different countries in the same day. I haven’t done that for a couple of years.

Not Quite to Plan

Not Quite to Plan

We didn’t quite do what we’d planned to do, but what we did do ended up being good.